This an updated post from last year – wines, vintages and prices updated. Chocolate can be a tricky customer when it comes to matching...

Definitely a chestnut cake with chocolate, rather than the other way round, but if you want it to be more chocolaty use 240g chocolate....

Rounding up my ice cream series with variations on a theme, and two sauces. This is also a good place to point out my favourite way of...

Every ice-cream cook has to have a chocolate recipe. This is mine. It was after making this and a seed-speckled vanilla that I turned my...

Happy Easter! To celebrate, I'm rounding off my chocolate recipe series with some tips and extras, including the all-important question...

A rich lava-like centre underneath a crisp crust, and a dark, brooding chocolate flavour - quintessential winter comfort, but a taste...

Chocolate can be a tricky customer when it comes to matching wines, but it’s certainly not a no-go area. Believe me, after years of...

This is a River Café Cookbook recipe. Over the years, I have tried varying it by adding chopped crystallised and stem ginger, rum-soaked...

This needs a couple of hours to chill, but apart from that it’s a doddle to prepare and is not cooked. It works equally well with...

These light-textured shortbread-like biscuits go down well with everyone from tinies through to nineties, probably because they are less...

This may lack sophistication as a strategy, but experience has shown that there are two surefire ways to success when giving a lunch or...

Aka irresistible chocolate mousse with rum. It's another simple classic that we could all be making instead of more elaborate cakes. And...

Fortified wines are among the wine world's great bargains. They make excellent presents and it's worth pointing out here that the rare...